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Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…
Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolittle.Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.
London: printed by R.I. for J. Johnson, 1666
DIRECTIONS how to live after a wasting PLAGUE. › Part 2 › Section 3
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5.1 To Neglect the keeping of thy resolutions and purposes against sin, and for an holy life, is it not a sinning against conscience, and against knowledge? It seems thy conscience hath told thee, when thou resolvedst to pray more fervently, that lukewarmness in prayer was a sin, and yet now thou dost not strive against it, thy conscience told thee that the ways of God were the best ways, and best for thee to walk therein, and yet now thou dost not do it, thy conscience hath been so far enlightened to dictate this unto thee, and yet thou goest against the dictates of thy conscience; thou dost not only sin with knowledge, but against it, and sins against knowledge and conscience, are aggravated sins, and such a sinner is an inexcusable, and self-condemned sinner, Rom. 2.1. didst thou not condemn thy self in time of Plague, that thou hadst taken no more pains for heaven, and for thy soul, that thou hadst prayed ⟨p. 136⟩no more, and lived no better? And what need we any further witness, when thine own conscience will come in against thee?
5.1 To Neglect the keeping of thy resolutions and purposes against sin, and for an holy life, is it not a sinning against conscience, and against knowledge? It seems thy conscience hath told thee, when thou resolvedst to pray more fervently, that lukewarmeness in prayer was a sin, and yet now thou dost not strive against it, thy conscience told thee that the ways of God were the best ways, and best for thee to walk therein, and yet now thou dost not do it, thy conscience hath been so far inlightned to dictate this unto thee, and yet thou goest against the dictates of thy conscience; thou dost not onely sin with knowledge, but against it, and sins against knowledge and conscience, are aggravated sins, and such a sinner is an inexcusable, and self-condemned sinner, Rom. 2.1. didst thou not condemn thy self in time of Plague, that thou hadst taken no more pains for heaven, and for thy soul, that thou hadst prayed ⟨p. 136⟩